From 65438 to 0894, with the support of American and British imperialism, Japan launched the "Sino-Japanese War" to invade China. Because of the corruption of the Qing government, the Qing army lost ground: first it was defeated by North Korea, then by Liaodong, and beiyang fleet was completely annihilated. The Qing army was defeated, and Beijing and Tianjin were in danger. Faced with this situation, the Qing government was terrified and decided to make peace.
In order to expand the interests of aggression, the United States took the opportunity to "mediate" and manipulated the Sino-Japanese peace talks alone. At the suggestion of the United States, the Qing government sent assistant minister Zhang and Hunan Governor Shao Youlian as plenipotentiaries to Hiroshima at the end of the year. The Japanese side thought that Zhang and Shao's official positions were too low, refused to negotiate, and asked the Qing government to send Beiyang Minister Li Hongzhang to Japan.
1895, 19 (12 1 year ago) In March, Li Hongzhang led his son Li, American consultant Costa, etc. 100 and arrived in Shimonoseki, Japan in the name of "the first-class plenipotentiary" to negotiate with Japanese Prime Minister Ito Bowen.
From March 24th, the negotiation of Shimonoseki officially started. At the negotiating table, Japan blackmailed and intimidated Li Hongzhang with the support of the United States, forcing him to sign a protracted clause. 1895 On April 7, 2007/kloc-0, Li Hongzhang drew a pledge on the treaty.
Through treaty of shimonoseki, the Japanese won 23150,000 taels of silver from China. Although the amount is slightly lower than the huge compensation paid to Eight-Nation Alliance by the 190 1 year, the amount of compensation paid by treaty of shimonoseki is the largest if only calculated from the caliber of compensation paid to a certain country.
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During the Japanese occupation of Taiwan Province Province, Taiwan Province Province was colonized by the Japanese Empire from 1895 to 1945, which is also called the Japanese occupation period or the Japanese colonial rule period.
The period of Japanese occupation in Taiwan Province Province was full of the colonial policy orientation and activity mode of Japanese imperialism, and the purpose of Japanese rule was to finally assimilate Taiwan Province Province with Japan. As Japan is the last country of modern colonial empire, its form of imperialism is backward. Different from western countries' overseas colonial policies guided by capitalism, Japanese capitalism is underdeveloped and unable to carry out large-scale capital activities in Taiwan Province Province.
Therefore, in the early days of Japanese occupation, the Governor's Office of Taiwan Province Province dominated the colonial development planning. In principle, the government will tailor various rules for Japanese capitalists, forcing Taiwan Province Province to provide resources, products and labor to serve them.
In the direction of national development, Japan regards Taiwan Province Province as the backing to support its own industry and the base to develop southward. The Governor's Office applies special laws to Taiwan Province, and the police exercise political control over society. People in Taiwan Province Province have no equal right to participate in politics. At the beginning, the level of modern education in Taiwan Province Province was much lower than that of the Japanese, and it was popularized year by year, but the education system was still unequal compared with the Japanese.
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